I don’t know how to say this without sounding a bit up my self, but I just spelled ‘poignantly’ correctly on the first go.
My fuel and drink at BP just came to $100.01, so I asked the girl behind the counter if I have a one cent discount so I could get a really nice number in my accounting software. She looked at me as if I was a crazy man.
Twitter’s asking a lot of questions about longer form writing today
Can we, or more to the point, will we innovate our way out of gestures at everything?
“So long as we keep choosing to create. If we keep doing what it is we do as people. We are explainers and constructors. We are creators. We are resource makers.”
I hope for a future where our thoughts, our conversations, our relationships, and our transactions are not handled by a handful of the largest companies on the globe.
I just think it’s a nicer world that way.
So I blog at micro.blog and that shares to some places, and I manually share to Facebook and/or Instagram sometimes, but ultimately I’d love to become acquainted with you outside of a corporate algorithm.
One way to achieve that is email. Apart from Google’s every attempt to ruin the experience for us, you subscribe to an email list and it appears in your inbox. You can reply to me, I can reply to you. It’s good.
If you like what I share, and you’d like to get it in an automatic weekly digest, chuck your email address in here joshwithers.blog/subscribe.
Mark Fisher, in k-punk, on naming things like music genres:
“Naming is not a neutral act of referring. Naming produces surplus value, something that wasn’t already there in the first place.”
One of my favourite aspects of the world wide web and the internet, is the process upon which we find people who think the same as we do. People whose minds vibrate on a similar frequency to ours.
So I present to you: Jameson Orvis’s ’the essence of place’
“The more I think about this label placement the more it pisses me off. Perhaps I could forgive the label for being so far from the geographic center of Brooklyn if the intersection of Brooklyn Ave and Atlantic Ave were at all remarkable. But no it’s just a random intersection along the A/C line with a 7/11 that the Google Maps label for Brooklyn just so happens to be positioned directly on top of. Why not just put it in the actual center of the borough? What purpose does this serve? Who or what algorithm is responsible? I descended a rabbit hole.”
Seems to have worked out ok for them tho
Kim Beazely - former Deputy PM of Australia, Ambassador to the USA, and current Governor of WA - on the general operational capacity of the United States of America:
“I think it’s brilliant the US actually works.”
Fun podcast listen at Hemispheric Views.
One of those weeks where I was on FaceTime a lot
You guys need anything while I’m here?
The difference 80km and a Ukrainian/Russian border makes in what you see on TikTok.
Ned Kelly’s legacy in tatters.
I booked a two night stay at this motel hoping for stay based on Ned Kelly’s principles of stealing livestock, denouncing the British Empire, and shooting Victorian police.
Not comfortability and cleanliness.
1 star.
Just in: the new rankings for reading a book:
- Acquire the book and read it with your eyes.
- Acquire the book and intend to read it.
- Listen to a podcast with the author about the book.
- Acquire the book without intent to read.
- Listen to the audiobook.
we’re all looking for someting, not knowing exactly what it is. then one day you’re driving toward the sunset with your window down, and wind running through your hair, as you think, “this is it, this is everything." and all you had to do, is open the window and let it in.
- jose chaves
I’ve got a hunch that this week will be the last one where Australia has a bloke named Scott Morrison as its Prime Minister. That election looms and the coalition wants someone else at the top.
And that makes the team at 6 News’ interview with ScoMo even more important. Consider it an exit interview.
The view from Kirribilli last night
